Intel Core i5 750 & i7 870 Review - PAGE 3

I will test two out of the Lynnfield processors released today : the Core i5 750 and Core i7 870. They will be put against the latest AM3 offerings from AMD, as well as Intel's Core i7 920 and two Core 2 processors. The AMD and Core 2 quad-cores have a raw clock speed advantage, however, the newest Lynnfield's can match or even best them with their secret weapon : Turbo mode. Therefor, I will test them with both this mode enabled and disabled in order to see the impact on overall performance.

As for the benchmarks, there will be a set of system benches and another set of gaming benches. Fraps will be used to record the FPS in both Call of Duty: World at War and Bioshock whereas for all other gaming tests, the built-in benchmarking tool will be used. All of these will be ran at 3 different resolutions except Call of Juarez, Lost Planet and World in Conflict where the minimum settings will be used to prevent a bottleneck from the graphics card.